Al, great post and I think something you said earlier came back to me on this one. You were talking about self-promoters like Woo Woo Wickers. That is what this is all about, self-promoters — the worst of them being Sianis himself, who was known for using anything and everything to promote his tavern. Most people use these sotries to promote themselves, a product, a business, heck probably most importantly thier own words in ink. That is why it exists — and why it should end.

First?

They tell me everyday how much better they are than the Cubs. How they are the class of baseball and the greatest thing since sliced bread. Yet they seem to be quite obsessed with our silly little team.

End my mini rant.

But I was composing my post while you were putting this up. I stand by it though. You gotta have some fun. That is what baseball is all about.

..outside of winning of course.

I have been telling any Cubs fan who will listen that all of the ancillary garbage is just that, garbage. If you want the national media and other baseball fans to treat the orgainization with respect you cant promote the sideshow crap. When Cub fans buy into it all of it, we give the media a free license to report about it and basically promote it.

It starts with the fans and it has to end with fans.

Certainly Crane didnt help the cause last week, but that is for another post…

But if we treat all the curse stuff as just a big joke then perhaps others will realize that this isn’t the reason the Cubs are losing.

See my post.

While I know seems inocuous, really just promotes the “kids stuff – fun and games” mentality that alot of people place on these ideas. It diminishes our team, it speaks to all those casual fans that don’t care whether the team wins or loses because its the “Cubbies”. Like we really are not taken seriously in the sport of baseball, but its ok because we have a cute little bear in our logo. It pisses me off, and no I will not embrace and such stupidity.

I thought having Marge Schott rub Schottzie’s dog hair, on Lou Piniella’s chest, for good luck, in Cincinnati, was pretty creepy.

The spraying of the holy water in the Cubs dugout before the NLDS paled in comparison, but I still didn’t like it.

much on here since, you know…. but I agree that this is a good time to get all this off our chests, cleanse ourselves from all the bull crap and hopefully our group of fans here on BCB come back next year determined to focus on the discussion of our baseball team and nothing else.

Thanks for pointing out the fact that all of us here have to learn to be better fans because the media and fans of other teams are certaintly not going to stop what they’re doing.

Well said!

You guys all need to take a breath. While I agree that the curse talk is anoying and if I hear another Bartman taunt I’m likley to snap, I’m trying to find an alternative way to vent. By the way, no one seems to be talking about the ‘Lovable Loser’ moniker that the Cubs have been carrying. I have pointed out to many that this is not true anymore since the Cubs have had 4 winning seasons in the last 6.